On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 01:42:40PM +1000, Allan Rae wrote:
> > Additionally, the monolithic images make a "my favourite symbols"
> > dynamic panel a lot harder to do.
>
> Not such a bad thing then even if you mean user-defined panel instead
Right, that's what I'm talking about. Maybe arbitrary numbers of
"virtual" panels creatable via drag and drop. Of course there comes a cut
off point where people learn to type in the latex symbol (which will be
more prevalent when the tooltips tell em what to type) but it's still
useful. There's still some difficulties I'm pondering before an
implementation ...
> You're into "Good UI" John. So please reassure me that Microsoft's
> hidden menues are worse than "Bad UI". I'm talking about the default
> behaviour of Office products to leave most menu entries hidden under
> an extra button at the bottom of the menu. PITA when you want to find
> something they consider unpopular by default.
Well I've never used Office but it *sounds* bad. I suppose the intention
was to reduce the complexity of the menus but it is morel likely to have
the effect of hiding the stuff altogether. What do these things look
like ? Do they have text attached ?
Sounds very much like a wallpaper solution - "our menus are too complex
- let's hide stuff" when there are probably better solutions.
Like removing about 90% of the features in word ;)
regards
john
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"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
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